[Stoat]

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Nurse Debbie Noble, right, walked to treat kidney patient Steph Crawford
 

Mrs Crawford added: 'After she got the machine working she then walked all the way home - and then did it all again the next day.

'The fact is without dialysis I would have died.

Snow nurse walks nine miles to treat patient (From This Is Local London)

The snow lay knee deep across Epsom last week

Debbie said: “I was pretty tired after all that walking, but the outcome was very successful. It was definitely worth it. I am used to walking, but I have to say that walking in the snow and ice is much harder than normal - I’m still wearing blister plasters.”

 

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[mowowie]

An angel

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Great story!
Nurses rock!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Let me guess.....this nurse is not waiting for her Obama check.

[azcap]

Not to take away from a true hero story (laurels to her) but in the US she would have just stuck her head in the staff lounge and said “who has a snowmobile?” 15 minutes later the story would be over.

[yldstrk]

these UK stories are so unrelated to anything in the US

spare us PLEASE

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

I don’t get why this is a story. She just did her job. If she said ‘oh I can’t be arsed walking 9 miles in the snow’ and that kidney patient had died, she would be quite rightly railed against for being negligent and indifferent.
It wasn’t like she went above and beyond like an actual hero. Hell, I’ve walked 30 miles up a mountain wearing a backpack and all the back down again just for a laugh (well, for charity). If I couldn’t have mustered myself to do the same again or less to actually save someone’s life, that would make me someone who was utterly beneath contempt.
Why doesn’t the story applaud her for not stealing her purse and knick-knacks on the way out as well?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Hail the British nurse! There are still some rugged industrial-strength tough ones, in the tradition of the toughest of them all, F. Nightingale. Bless you for posting this story.

[giotto]

She added: "At work you sometimes get a 'yes' moment when something works. Walking home in the snow with the moon shining was one of those moments that you store up for a rainy day."

This woman functions on a very high spiritual level. God bless her and all the other selfless souls who labor for the well being of others, often with little reward, other than the priceless moments like the one she describes.

[Glenn]

My former is a nurse practitioner with 30 years experience in dialysis. We took a young waif into our home for several years and eventually switched him to home dialysis. It was time consuming. Unrewarding, because of the myriad pains it caused to the boy. I could never have done it on my own.

I hear from him now and again. He’s thriving and happy and I have no regrets.

I hear from her as well. She is still devoted to her patients. She even went so far as to donate a kidney of her own. The chap died of a heart attack a few years post-transplant, but his life was better for knowing her.

[BerryDingle]

We never hear these kinds of stories here in the U.S. unless the woman was receiving dialysis as her power was shut off for non-payment of her electric bill.

[Mr. K]

In Buffalo we call that “light dusting” ad just leave 5 minutes early for work

[Kimmers]

Thanks for posting such a sweet story....